Intern BLS lazy public keys

This ensures that for each compressed public key there's at most one
lazy public key, which means everyone profits when it is uncompressed.

This drops the (unused: never read from) BLS public key cache.

blockchain/tests/signed.rs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use nimiq_block::{
 };
 use nimiq_blockchain::{Blockchain, BlockchainConfig};
 use nimiq_blockchain_interface::AbstractBlockchain;
-use nimiq_bls::{lazy::LazyPublicKey, AggregateSignature, KeyPair};
+use nimiq_bls::{AggregateSignature, KeyPair, LazyPublicKey as BlsLazyPublicKey};
 use nimiq_collections::bitset::BitSet;
 use nimiq_database::mdbx::MdbxDatabase;
 use nimiq_keys::{Address, Ed25519PublicKey};
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ fn test_skip_block_single_signature() {
     // verify skip block proof
     let validators = Validators::new(vec![Validator::new(
         Address::default(),
-        LazyPublicKey::from(key_pair.public_key),
+        BlsLazyPublicKey::from(key_pair.public_key),
         Ed25519PublicKey::from([0u8; 32]),
         0..Policy::SLOTS,
     )]);

bls/Cargo.toml

@@ -39,7 +39,5 @@ nimiq-test-log = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-test-utils = { workspace = true }
 
 [features]
-cache = ["lazy"]
-default = ["lazy", "serde-derive"]
-lazy = ["parking_lot"]
+default = ["serde-derive"]
 serde-derive = ["nimiq-serde", "serde"]

bls/src/lazy.rs

@@ -1,141 +1,110 @@
-use std::{cmp::Ordering, fmt};
+use std::{cmp::Ordering, fmt, hash::Hasher, sync::OnceLock};
 
 use nimiq_hash::Hash;
-use parking_lot::{
-    MappedRwLockReadGuard, RwLock, RwLockReadGuard, RwLockUpgradableReadGuard, RwLockWriteGuard,
-};
+use nimiq_utils::interner::{Interned, Interner};
 
 use crate::{CompressedPublicKey, PublicKey, SigHash, Signature};
 
-pub struct LazyPublicKey {
-    pub(crate) compressed: CompressedPublicKey,
-    pub(crate) cache: RwLock<Option<PublicKey>>,
+fn cache() -> &'static Interner<CompressedPublicKey, OnceLock<Option<PublicKey>>> {
+    static CACHE: OnceLock<Interner<CompressedPublicKey, OnceLock<Option<PublicKey>>>> =
+        OnceLock::new();
+    CACHE.get_or_init(Default::default)
 }
 
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct LazyPublicKey(Interned<CompressedPublicKey, OnceLock<Option<PublicKey>>>);
+
 impl fmt::Debug for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
-        write!(f, "LazyPublicKey({})", self.compressed)
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        f.debug_tuple("LazyPublicKey")
+            .field(self.compressed())
+            .finish()
     }
 }
 
 impl fmt::Display for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
-        fmt::Display::fmt(&self.compressed, f)
-    }
-}
-
-impl Clone for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
-        LazyPublicKey {
-            compressed: self.compressed.clone(),
-            cache: RwLock::new(*self.cache.read()),
-        }
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        fmt::Display::fmt(self.compressed(), f)
     }
 }
 
 impl PartialEq for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn eq(&self, other: &LazyPublicKey) -> bool {
-        self.compressed.eq(&other.compressed)
+    fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
+        self.compressed().eq(other.compressed())
     }
 }
 
 impl Eq for LazyPublicKey {}
 
-impl PartialOrd<LazyPublicKey> for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &LazyPublicKey) -> Option<Ordering> {
-        Some(self.cmp(other))
+impl std::hash::Hash for LazyPublicKey {
+    fn hash<H: Hasher>(&self, state: &mut H) {
+        std::hash::Hash::hash(self.compressed(), state)
     }
 }
 
-impl Ord for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
-        self.compressed.cmp(&other.compressed)
+#[allow(clippy::non_canonical_partial_ord_impl)]
+impl PartialOrd for LazyPublicKey {
+    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
+        self.compressed().partial_cmp(other.compressed())
     }
 }
 
-impl AsRef<[u8]> for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn as_ref(&self) -> &[u8] {
-        self.compressed.as_ref()
+impl Ord for LazyPublicKey {
+    fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
+        self.compressed().cmp(other.compressed())
     }
 }
 
 impl LazyPublicKey {
-    pub fn from_compressed(compressed: &CompressedPublicKey) -> Self {
-        LazyPublicKey {
-            compressed: compressed.clone(),
-            cache: RwLock::new(None),
-        }
+    pub fn from_compressed(compressed: &CompressedPublicKey) -> LazyPublicKey {
+        LazyPublicKey(cache().intern_with(compressed, OnceLock::new))
     }
 
-    pub fn uncompress(&self) -> Option<MappedRwLockReadGuard<PublicKey>> {
-        let read_guard: RwLockReadGuard<Option<PublicKey>>;
-
-        let upgradable = self.cache.upgradable_read();
-        if upgradable.is_some() {
-            // Fast path, downgrade and return
-            read_guard = RwLockUpgradableReadGuard::downgrade(upgradable);
-        } else {
-            // Slow path, upgrade, write, downgrade and return
-            let mut upgraded = RwLockUpgradableReadGuard::upgrade(upgradable);
-            *upgraded = Some(match self.compressed.uncompress() {
-                Ok(p) => p,
-                _ => return None,
-            });
-            read_guard = RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade(upgraded);
-        }
-
-        Some(RwLockReadGuard::map(read_guard, |opt| {
-            opt.as_ref().unwrap()
-        }))
-    }
-
-    pub fn uncompress_unchecked(&self) -> MappedRwLockReadGuard<PublicKey> {
-        self.uncompress().expect("Invalid public key")
+    pub fn uncompress(&self) -> Option<&PublicKey> {
+        self.0
+            .value()
+            .get_or_init(|| self.compressed().uncompress().ok())
+            .as_ref()
     }
 
     pub fn compressed(&self) -> &CompressedPublicKey {
-        &self.compressed
+        &self.0.key()
     }
 
     pub fn has_uncompressed(&self) -> bool {
-        self.cache.read().is_some()
+        self.0.value().get().is_some()
     }
 
     pub fn verify<M: Hash>(&self, msg: &M, signature: &Signature) -> bool {
-        let cached = self.uncompress();
-        if let Some(public_key) = cached.as_ref() {
+        if let Some(public_key) = self.uncompress() {
             return public_key.verify(msg, signature);
         }
         false
     }
 
     pub fn verify_hash(&self, hash: SigHash, signature: &Signature) -> bool {
-        let cached = self.uncompress();
-        if let Some(public_key) = cached.as_ref() {
+        if let Some(public_key) = self.uncompress() {
             return public_key.verify_hash(hash, signature);
         }
         false
     }
 }
 
 impl From<PublicKey> for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn from(key: PublicKey) -> Self {
-        LazyPublicKey {
-            compressed: key.compress(),
-            cache: RwLock::new(Some(key)),
-        }
+    fn from(key: PublicKey) -> LazyPublicKey {
+        LazyPublicKey(cache().intern(&key.compress(), OnceLock::from(Some(key))))
     }
 }
 
 impl From<CompressedPublicKey> for LazyPublicKey {
-    fn from(key: CompressedPublicKey) -> Self {
-        LazyPublicKey::from_compressed(&key)
+    fn from(compressed: CompressedPublicKey) -> Self {
+        LazyPublicKey::from_compressed(&compressed)
     }
 }
 
 impl From<LazyPublicKey> for CompressedPublicKey {
     fn from(key: LazyPublicKey) -> Self {
-        key.compressed
+        key.compressed().clone()
     }
 }
 
@@ -155,7 +124,7 @@ mod serialization {
         where
             S: serde::Serializer,
         {
-            Serialize::serialize(&self.compressed, serializer)
+            Serialize::serialize(&self.compressed(), serializer)
         }
     }
 

bls/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
+pub use lazy::LazyPublicKey;
 use nimiq_hash::Blake2sHash;
 pub use types::*;
 
 // Implements the LazyPublicKey type. Which is a faster, cached version of PublicKey.
-#[cfg(feature = "lazy")]
-pub mod lazy;
+mod lazy;
 
 // Implements all of the types needed to do BLS signatures.
 mod types;
 
 // Specifies the hash algorithm used for signatures
 pub type SigHash = Blake2sHash;
 
-// A simple cache implementation for the (un)compressed keys.
-#[cfg(feature = "cache")]
-pub mod cache;
-
 // Implements the tagged-signing traits
 #[cfg(feature = "serde-derive")]
 mod tagged_signing;